Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
BOBBY JONESYou are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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